Is functional programming more effective than object-oriented programming?
Apr 26, 2017
Imperative vs functional programming. It’s a debate that goes back to the birth of high-level languages—Fortran vs Lisp. In later years, it was retreaded as object-oriented vs function programming (OOP vs FP)—OOP having become the (massively) dominant software development paradigm. And, I’m a fully paid-up member. I embraced Object Pascal via Delphi 1 on 1995 […]
Is There Really Such a Thing as Security Through Obscurity?
Oct 31, 2014
DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has issued an interesting Broad Agency Announcement for the SafeWare program (details here) seeking a “highly efficient and widely applicable program obfuscation method with mathematically proven security properties.” What’s going on? DARPA wants to create programs that people can run without figuring out how the programs work. […]
